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Not true. Not according to its original critics in the House and Senate. They standby their original claims that it was and remains a violation of civil liberties. What was finally hammered out was between more moderate Democrats along with Republicans and the White House, and according to the original critics is merely window-dressing.

The government is still allowed to listen to phone calls with retroactive warrants just like before.

And so there is no confusion, I support the Patriot Act. I just don't support duplicitous politics.

So when did reauthorizing what you previously supported become a "shredding of the Constitution"?

Obama has always made it clear that he was not prepared to simply walk away from the Patriot Act but would not support warrantless activities or actions that undermined due process. My biggest complaint about the business records authority is the ability of the government to prohibit the organization that is subject to records disclosure from telling anyone what happened. The provision allowing phone tapping to move from phone to phone as the individual targeted changes phones is important and does require a special warrant.

Wait until those leftist nutjob czars like Cass Sunstein and the FCC diversity czar get rolling. We won't be able to hunt and the broadcast media will be totally govt run. Jefferson Madison et al must be rolling in their graves.

So when did reauthorizing what you previously supported become a "shredding of the Constitution"?Obama has always made it clear that he was not prepared to simply walk away from the Patriot Act but would not support warrantless activities or actions that undermined due process. My biggest complaint about the business records authority is the ability of the government to prohibit the organization that is subject to records disclosure from telling anyone what happened. The provision allowing phone tapping to move from phone to phone as the individual targeted changes phones is important and does require a special warrant.